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Corpus Delicti

242: Do No Harm: Dr. John Bodkin Adams

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Adams was well respected partially because of the wealthy patients he helped. But behind the scenes, there was an ulterior motive. Or was there? What can be proven? What is simply rumor?



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Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams

https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/adams-john-bodkin.htm

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dr-john-bodkin-adamhttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-35606070

An Intruder at Eastbourne - TIME (archive.org)

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone is Jen and this is Lindsay and welcome back to the last of our do-no harm series.

0:30.9

Yeah, we're going to go ahead and wrap this series up and like Jen said, this is the finale.

0:36.1

It's a big finale. It's a long involved story and then next

0:41.2

week we are going to kick off a brand new series we do not have a name yet but it is going to be

0:47.7

survivor stories stories in which there was a survivor talking about how they survived and all of that

0:53.7

so looking forward to that one.

0:56.4

So more to come. The first one is ready to roll. And actually, I'll throw out a little teaser.

1:02.2

It involves a serial killer that I had never heard of before. And I'm very surprised that I had

1:07.0

never heard of the serial killer. Y'all all might be like, how have you been under a rock?

1:11.9

I don't know.

1:12.7

But it was, it was something.

1:15.6

I'll put it that way.

1:17.4

All right.

1:17.8

So let's get into this episode because it is a dozy, guys.

1:22.6

It is going to be, it's not a two-parter, but it got pretty darn close. So in 1957, there is a very

1:31.7

wealthy and prominent doctor that would be tried and acquitted for the murder of one of his

1:38.2

patients. The common consensus, Dr. John Botkin Adams, took the lives of at least 163 patients. Born January 21st, 1899 in Ireland,

1:51.9

Adams was raised in Randall's town. The family and that area is devoutly religious Protestant family.

2:00.1

Well, his father is a preacher in town, but he was

2:03.1

also a watchmaker. So he kind of did double duty for a while. Now, both Adams and his dad

2:09.3

had a passion for cars. And the passion was not only racing, but like those really expensive type of cars, and that's going

2:20.9

to come into play a little bit later on. His dad unfortunately died of a stroke when Adams was just a

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